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mm/mempool: avoid KASAN marking mempool poison checks as use-after-free
authorMatthew Dawson <matthew@mjdsystems.ca>
Fri, 11 Mar 2016 21:08:07 +0000 (13:08 -0800)
committerSasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Sun, 10 Sep 2017 20:36:09 +0000 (16:36 -0400)
[ Upstream commit 7640131032db9118a78af715ac77ba2debeeb17c ]

When removing an element from the mempool, mark it as unpoisoned in KASAN
before verifying its contents for SLUB/SLAB debugging.  Otherwise KASAN
will flag the reads checking the element use-after-free writes as
use-after-free reads.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Dawson <matthew@mjdsystems.ca>
Acked-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
mm/mempool.c

index 2cc08de8b1db259c70ad8d3aa28d0691f7ada544..70cccdcff860fa5dcc3a96778d287c3fc69d5a39 100644 (file)
@@ -135,8 +135,8 @@ static void *remove_element(mempool_t *pool)
        void *element = pool->elements[--pool->curr_nr];
 
        BUG_ON(pool->curr_nr < 0);
-       check_element(pool, element);
        kasan_unpoison_element(pool, element);
+       check_element(pool, element);
        return element;
 }